Dec 07 Patchwork Nation: The ‘Cities’ of Philadelphia By Anna Shoup As part of the kick-off to a series this week on the PBS NewsHour examining the communities of Patchwork Nation, project director Dante Chinni takes viewers on a drive down Germantown Ave., revealing the many "cities" that make up Philadelphia. Continue reading
Dec 07 Philadelphia’s ‘Love Letter’ Murals Spark Neighborhood Revival By Anna Shoup Originally started to combat a major graffiti problem, Philadelphia's Mural Arts program has become a successful tool for urban renewal. Continue reading
Dec 07 Watch At The Met, Staging a Revival for Grand Opera With opera attendance down some 34 percent over the last six years, New York's storied Metropolitan Opera is asking how it can help keep a cherished art form not only alive, but thriving. Continue watching
Dec 04 Jeffrey Brown: Here’s to a Year of Art Beat Hard to believe, but it's been a year since we launched Art Beat, NewsHour's arts and culture blog. For the NewsHour generally, Art Beat has greatly increased our ability to delve into the arts, reporting on and presenting so… Continue reading
Dec 04 Young Voters a Complex and Growing Force By Quinn Bowman In the 2008 presidential election that sent Barack Obama to the White House, younger voters challenged the conventional wisdom that young people are too fickle, immature or uninformed to vote. Continue reading
Dec 04 Here’s to a Year of Art Beat By Arts Desk Hard to believe, but it's been a year since we launched this blog. After our first weeks, I wrote a thank you to our "first responders" -- the people who'd written in to say how much they appreciated and supported… Continue reading
Dec 04 For Singles, Job Losses Hit Twice as Hard When it comes to job losses, the economy's slide has been twice as painful for singles as it has for married adults. Continue reading
Dec 03 The Portrait of Health: An Artist’s Perspective on Health Insurance, Part 2 Christian Benefiel brings out an old bent steering wheel and proudly places it on the floor of the classroom studio. He rolls the lopsided wheel around on the concrete, and it does lazy circles, wobbling hard as it makes a… Continue reading
Dec 02 Photos from the Beijing Underground Capturing the faces of an ever expanding and changing youth movement in China, photographer Matthew Niederhauser's ongoing project, "Sound Kapital," documents the emerging underground punk, indie rock, electronic and folk music scenes of Beijing. Continue reading